Fuel Dump Fires at Gibraltar
LONDON, Thursday. — Gibraltar has had its second fuel blaze within a week. A BBC correspondent says that…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
Small Fire in Hotel
Cook's Hill and Newcastle East Fire Brigades were called to the Westminster Hotel yesterday. There was a small fire in a bedroom…
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While Joan Collins, 8, was standing with her back to the fire at her home in Creek Reserve, Boolaroo, yesterday morning, her…
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NEW YORK.—Thirty persons died in a fire which swept the Lake Forest Sanatorium at Seattle, USA. recently…
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A cottage and its contents at Warner's Bay were destroyed by fire last night. The cottage was owned by Albert Carpenter. Half an hour…
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LONDON—Ralph Churchill Ellis. Third Officer, of west Kirby England has received the MBE. His ship was hit by bombs and…
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Newcastle members of New South Wales Women's Fire Auxiliary are to be provided with uniforms and working overalls by the Board of Fire…
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SYDNEY.âFire early to-day destroyed a large section of the Taronga Zoo refreshment rooms and administrative offices…
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A South Australian. Flight-Sergeant D. J. McLoughlin. wireless gunner of a light bomber operating over Sicily, kept his aircraft…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Although an electric spark is believed to have caused the outbreak, members of the arson squad are investigating a fire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A two storey building, the premises of the Roof and Building Services Pty. Ltd., of Surry Hills, was severely…
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Stephen Edward Hickey, 49, miner, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by Judge Nield at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A dense column of smoke rose some hundreds of feet into the air at Mascot to-day, when 70 drums of oil…
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A fire last night at F. Viggers Pty. Ltd.'s shale oil plant, in Hudson-street, Hamilton, was extinguished with foam by firemen from brigade…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Women are wanted to help make fire hose. The women on the job need hundreds more to help them. Only shortage…
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A salvage bin and its contents were destroyed at Morehead St. Lambton during the week-end The cause of the fire is not known…
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Many of the 600 mineworkers who lost their jobs as a result of the sealing of Aberdare Central Colliery, to-day besieged colliery managements on the Coalfields. Few were able to get any assurance of immediate work,…
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A big fire causing dangerous gas broke out underground in Aberdare Central colliery, one of the biggest in the North, on Saturday night. The mine had to be sealed off yesterday. Of the…
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LONDON, July 27.—Another raid on Hamburg was made last night by Mosquito bombers of the Royal Air Force. Fires still burning from…
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Burned when her clothes caught fire yesterday, an invalid, Mrs. Hazel McKenzie, 35, of Macquarie-street, Merewether, died later in Newcastle…
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